Poem-A-Day: A Book Of Music by Jack Spicer

January 30, 2014 A Book of Music by Jack Spicer   Coming at an end, the lovers  Are exhausted like two swimmers. Where  Did it end? There is no telling. No love is  Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries From which two can emerge exhausted, nor long goodbye  Like death.  Coming at an end. Rather, I would say, like a length  Of coiled rope  Which does not disguise in the final twists of its lengths  Its endings.  But, you will say, we loved  And some parts of us loved  And the rest of us will remain  Two persons. Yes,  Poetry ends like a rope.           From My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, published by Wesleyan University Press. Used by permission.  Poetry by Spicer My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan University Press, 2010)                 Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.     Jack Spicer authored numerous books of poetry, collected in My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan University Press, 2010). He was born today in 1925.  Related Poems Dear Miss Emily by James Galvin Man and Wife by Robert Lowell  To Earthward by Robert Frost  __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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